As the expose article pointed out, 3rd dan is a very low rank for a soke. That guy struts about martial-forums.com with his imaginary Sokeships and makes out like he's some authority on ninjitsu. His knowlege looks like basic x-kan material that anyone can find.

Leo would have to prove defamtion which is spoken or written words that falsely and negatively reflect on a living person's reputation.

Whe haven't falseied anything. We pointed out his lies with his own words and the words of the pple who gave him his "World Championship". Leo has not presented anything to refute what we said and prove that we made anything up. He stated he won a World Championship that was true and we said as such. BUT he stated he won it through a grueling NHB type tournament and even implying that he was physically damaged from it. That we pointed out was a LIE. We did that by contacting the very pple who granted him the Championship and they stated clearly that it was a VIRTUAL Championship where the participants sent in VIDEOS and did NOT fight each other. So if Leo wants to threaten Lawsuits he better get it right.

Can any mod tell us if that "Berador is dead" thread was started by the same IP adress as Berador's account?

Also: That "OMG! I'm goona soo!" stuff looks as likely as meeting up for a sparring match. Perhaps someone with more legal knowlege than myself can clarify, but I believe that countries use different defamation laws. Some countries require the accuser to prove fraud and some require the defendant to proove the claims false. Either way, we are in the clear. If he did sure, (and I think there is about a 0.005% chance of that happening) it would be so funny as his bullshit would be paraded out in front of a magistrate. The fake certificate, the ICMAUA emails, his tooof!, the faceless sensei Ooyama.

Since more and more styles offers, not only instructional videos, but even "BB video-courses" , i was wondering what your views are on this matter. Personally i find it a bit offending , having used many years training in a Dojo to reach my level, that the Dan's are "put up for sale" in this way. I might be wrong on this, but i can't see how a video-tape could possibly give ANYBODY the same proficiency in an art that a real-life instructor whould.

To summarize my view on this; i can understand the training-videos that contain "standard-drills", for the students that have long travels to get to a Dojo / Dojang / Shibu (Etc.) and therefore can't train as regularly as they might want to . I just can't condone the "BB video-courses", as i find them a mockery of the persons that have worked had to obtain that under a real instructor.